Former LMS Lines

Photos taken on the lines of the former LMS, apart from those with a dedicated collection such as the West Coast Main Line and Scotland, from the end of the steam era to the present day. As usual, a few to start with, many more to be added...

Midland 1F 0-6-0T No. 41875 at Staveley (Barrow Hill) depot, 41E, on Saturday 3rd August 1963. This was one of the locos used to shunt the yards at Staveley Iron Works as the Midland Railway had a 100 year contract to provide motive power for the works, dating from 1866. Designed by S.W. Johnson as MR class 1121, the loco was built in May 1899 by R. Stephenson & Co., works No. 2946. It had just been withdrawn in July 1963 and was scrapped at BR Derby Works the following month, September 1963. Slide No. 228.